001recording. We do have a quorum. Everyone is in attendance. Um Lori, would you lead us in the seat to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation and justice for all. Okay. First thing we have to do is to reorganize the board of trustees. We always do that at the May meeting after the elections in May. So um what's the 2.1 the discussion of procedures? What is that? So usually we just talk about um so before we swear in the elected trustees um Mr. Clerk and reorganize the board. Uh, first of all, I just want to say thank you to Gary, Lori, and Bill for refiling and serving our school and community in this important role. So, thank um, as I've said many times, I really do
002feel fortunate to have the school board that we have. Um, working together for a common purpose, and that's for the students, the staff, and the community. So, it's just a it's been a special privilege to get to be a part of that for the last couple of years. Um and then um during the 2526 school year, as per board policy, we'll continue to meet on the second Monday of every month at 7 o'clock p.m. in the boardroom. Uh Josh Patterson is online um uh today. And so he will once he gets started kind of navigate the packet and how all of that stuff will operate. And so he will do that. And uh at this time, I believe Mike Miller, our county superintendent, is here and he will swear in our uh board of trustees
003who won by acclamation. So, congratulations. Suzanne's got the certificates. I would normally start by congratulating everybody for the work that they did during their term and say goodbye and thank you, but that sounds a little redundant. go on and and square everybody in Suzanne knows that I need one to read. So, uh are we going to do it all at one one time or one at a time? Okay. So, if do you also have your everybody else has one? All right. Wait a minute. We got three. Not yet. So, I'm gonna I will say I do solemnly swear. You stay a firm if you want. Either one is is fine. So, as I read, I will ask you to follow after me and repeat after me. So, raise your right hand, please. I do solemnly
004swear I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect, and defend that I will support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Montana and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity. So help me God. Congratulations. Yes. And I have to sign all of these and then we just sign. You do not have to give notori I'm signing I'll put my real name down. Sure. Why I still use my because nobody would know you as Violet. [Laughter] Robert name. Sure. Lori and the threeear terms and is that right? Yeah. You have to read it next year already. Yeah, next year. Yeah. And you send me that information because I do have a spreadsheet where I'm That's mine. and Robert Mike signed his [Music]
005I know but like when we met at boy state a million years ago you were like that my dad's name is also Robert so it was just easier for the folks to call All right. So, I will thank you for last year's term and then I would like to uh wish you the best of luck in the and congratulate you and thank you for the dedication that you give to the school community. I need to sign. I got to stay here. Mike, thank you for everything you do. And so now it's time to reorganize the board starting with the election of the board chair and then the vice chair. And once that is complete, you will elect the district clerk um who will also then need to be sworn in. Nominations are now open for
006chairman of the board. I would nominate Gary Love. Gary Love has been nominated. Are there any other nominations for [Music] chairman? Are there any other nominations for chairman? That's three. Are there nominations for chairman? Let me keep baking. No other nominations. Um, all those in favor of nominating or electing Gary Love as chairman of the board say I. Those opposed, thank you very much. I appreciate it. and try to do a good job. 38 years as chairman. I think so. Might be record of stupidity. [Music] Okay. Um, next is election of vice chairman. Second. England has been nominated for vice chairman. Are there any other nominations for vice chairman? Are there any other nominations for vice chairman? Were there any other nominations for vice chairman? Is there any discussion? All those in favor of electing
007Roxan England as vice chairman say I. I. Those opposed passes unanimously. Congratulations Roxan. Thanks. Next is we need to elect and swear in the district clerk. So somebody needs to nominate I would nominate Suzanne Balik as the district clerk. Okay. Suzanne Volik has been nominated as district clerk. Are there any other nominations for district clerk? Are there any other nominations for district clerk? Are there any other nominations for district clerk? Seeing none, is there any discussion? She's doing an excellent job. Does an excellent job. All those in favor of electing Suzanne Bik to district clerk say I. I. Those opposed. Also passes unanimously. Okay, Michael, you're up again. And I I will say that I work with seven dedicated, hardworking uh school clerks. Um, Rita Monday has three. Damian Hound Camp has has one. Stacy
008Stzer has one. Michelle Davis has one. Darcy don't know how to pronounce Darcy's last name in Lima. Casey Switcher. And of course, Suzanne. And they have kept me on target and under in in the right direction all these years. And Suzanne has done a very very good job since she first became your clerk. So I welcome I and I I think you've done a good job here. So are we ready remember? So I again in swear or affirm you can say that or stop. I do always swear and I will support, protect and defend and defend the Constitution of the United States constitution the Constitution of the State of Montana. and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity. So, congratulations. Congratulations, Suzanne. [Music] Yes, I guess I'm done now, huh? And
009that is not being the middle. Okay, we have the minutes here from the last two meetings from the April 14th meeting and the April 23rd meeting. Josh, are you here listening? Josh Patterson. Yes, I'm here. Okay. Have you been here a while? Yes, I caught the tail end of the closed session. Okay, that's right. Thank you for being here. pipe up if there's anything you need to say or don't hear or whatever when we'll go into our meeting. Yes, sir. Okay. Anyway, look at the minutes if you haven't had a chance to sitting next to you. They were not in the packet. I apologize for that. Thought I just missed him. No, I did. Yeah, but she's sleeping. Anyway, m approve the minutes from uh April 14th into April 23rd. Second move and seconded to
010approve the minutes from April 14th and April 23rd. Any questions, comments? If I wasn't here, do I just say minutes are accurate? That's a good question. I don't know. Either way, I think it's fine. [Music] All those in favor of approving the two sets of minutes say I. Those opposed. Yeah. Pass the next we have the introduction of introduction of the visitors. Mr. Right. We have Casey Elliott, Kelsey Viter, um Coffman's here, Judge Keller, Hansen's here, Chris. Okay. And like with any of our meetings, you're certainly welcome to stay the whole time. And if you need to leave or want to leave partway through, feel free to do so. Talk about you after you. Okay. Next is approving claims and accounts. Megan, the first one is um 200078 uh for ANI distributors for um $1,986.65.
011Uh this is for engine oils, fluids and solutions for our transportation department. 200082 bar hospital and healthcare for 38751. Um this just reflects the trainer fee. So there was no um um additional charges for our related services this month. uh 200083 uh student association for $8,245.75. Um uh the big chunk of this was for um the sound system deposit check approved at the last uh board meeting. And you'll remember that we will be using some of the um uh innovative tax credit dollars uh to support that. And as Roxanne talked about at graduation at Western, we certainly are very excited to update um the PA system in the gym. It's been long overdue. Trying to decide what the last what the year was that it was updated, but it was before I came 20 years
012ago. Anyways, it'll be nice to have that. Um let's see here. 2084 Mastercard for $5,629.73. Again, if you kind of look through there, a good chunk of that money um is from grants that we are spending down um between vocational education, advanced opportunities um and our DNR grant uh that we're working on hopefully having complete uh by the end of May. And then of course there are some uh transportation charges that are on there. We did have a little mishap on our um trip to the um your choice. Thanks the it's your choice assembly. one of and nobody can figure out how it happened, but the bus came through to drop off the kids and somehow on the way through it clipped the gate on the back end and like folded it into a crazy
013it it just was insane. Nobody knows how it happened, but it happened. And so we did have to we did have to fix some units that is on the codes. Uh on the second page uh at the top there 200086 building codes uh Euro boiler. It's only for $180, but I just thought it was important to just point out um that our boilers have been inspected and we have six boilers that have been certified. And so, um, that is once a year that they come in and do that inspection and certify those boilers. Paul can probably speak a little bit more to that, but that's accurate. Um, let's see here. Moving down towards the end of the page, 2090, City of Dylan water for $1,78048. Uh, that's water and sewer use for April. Um, and
014then looking at last year, um, it's actually down a couple hundred dollars from last year. So, uh, that's not the trend and everything that we're going to take. We'll celebrate that one. Um, 200091, um, Cognney Incorporated for 1,400. Um, that's our advanced ed membership, um, for um, for our evaluations and those different types of things. and reload use title two money uh to pay for that. So uh and then it isn't uh underlined, but I did as I was going back through there uh there also was a charge for Crowley and Fleck for $4,263 and that's just um you know legal fees that we uh have incurred for the construction. uh on page three uh 200093 Dex imaging uh for $3,564.35. Uh you'll see there charges for January through April which is just um the
015um the use uh obviously we have the copier lease and then in the last couple of months they have broken out the contract base rate. Uh looking back at it, it hasn't changed much. So, it's like they just took that that piece out of it and just separated it um on that uh looking at a couple of different things. It's just really hard to find local vendors um that that can do this. And so, you know, I think we talked a little bit in terms of, you know, what our options are and it's really that there just are not a lot of options. Okay. And so, um, you know, and I do do think that if you were to not have that contract and not have that lease, you know, just the cost of the
016ink and, you know, the paper and you just all of those different things, I think you would end up spending more. I haven't done that research, but it seems like that that would be the piece. So, as Phil said, there just are not a lot of options out there. Yes. So then moving down 2096 DPHHS, that's our CSCT match for 2,487.92. And again, Suzanne continues to make sure that we are getting that match. Again, it's not black and white uh looking at it monthtomonth, but it does seem like we are getting what they are suggesting that that we are getting, which is that match. And plus that YBHGR services is is extremely beneficial for your students. Uh 2097 general distributing uh for $2,4279. Uh and that's uh for a variety of miscellaneous welding and shop
017supplies. You will recall that we did have a contract with UN Western for um that adult education class that they taught. um that's this will be reimbursed um for the most part because most of that was just over and above what we would have been um spending. So that was part of that cont. So they were very great partners by the way as as you guys look at the possibility of that in the future. It seems to be a very positive partnership between us and Western. Page four, about halfway down where it says 201103, KL Smith Consulting for $1,11128. uh they help us uh basically to just ensure that we get the best e rate um uh so that we're not paying as much for our communication and some of those different types of things
018and they file those forms and those different types of things. So it's an annual charge. Uh 201104 Larry's Automotive for $2,250. Um that is the bus storage for our Wisdom bus uh that we store out in Wisdom. That's an annual fee. That's an annual fee. Okay. Uh and then on page five, Northwestern Energy, uh $8,976. Um again, this is for April. Um last year, uh it was about $10,000. So, it's up about $1,000, um from last year. Uh do keep in mind that we did not have the Gilani football field on there last year. So that is going to be some of those extra charges that we are going to see on there. So uh then moving down 20112 Shell Energy North American for gas transmission for April. Um that is for sorry [Music] $2,65.35.
019Uh and last year uh it was looks like 2,300. So it's actually down a little bit as well. Uh, moving down to 20115, state of the heart therapy, $4,286.25. Again, this is for speech services for two months. So, um, I guess the the bill got lost in the mail last year for last month. And so, this is for both March and April. So, for $4,28625. Uh and then 20116 uh systems northwest for $1,947.50. Um so a good chunk of this is just annual charges for our camera monitoring and our fire monitoring that we have with them. uh we were having a very annoying issue with um uh the alarm going off where we were having a problem within the system and took Northwest or I'm sorry I would say Northwest Energy Systems Northwest and Paul
020took our technology director a significant amount of time to try to figure out what it was and I do think that they have found um what that problem was and were able to reset that and So loud squeal and um and you couldn't get it to turn off and it was horrible and so um that has been we are very and I believe that was all that I highlighted. Did I miss one? I did I did mention it, but probably on one. So, I did I noticed that I didn't underline it, but I did highlight pay the claims. Second to pay the claims. Are there any other questions or comments? Those in favor say I. [Music] The comment and communication. Does anyone have anything they'd like to phone in on? Just want to say that
021um banquet last week was really well attended. I think Caleb said that we had about 15 150 uh people that were in attendance. So just a lot of people to celebrate the great things that the kids and Lincoln did this year. So that was really positive. And then of course we had the open house for Josh and of April and so that was very positive as well. Hopefully Josh felt that way too. I would just like to comment real quickly. Um as you're aware the technology levy did fail both for us and for district 10. I guess I'd like to thank everyone for all the hard work they put into it and for the staff and faculty and students that tried to help us get this thing passed. Very disappointing in my opinion that it
022failed. I mean, it's going to obviously affect our general fund budget immensely. So, it's something going forward we're going to have have to pay lots of expenses out in the general fund. So, wasn't there only 44% turn voter turnout is Yes. Anyway, I feel bad that it was defeated for both school districts and rightly also I see. Yeah. Yep. Any other public comment or communication from anyone? Okay. If not, we'll go to the superintendent report. Megan, so 7.1 Kelsey Zitzer's career day recap. So, Mrs. sister is here today to reflect on the career day of career day that she held at her in her biology and AP biology class. Hello. Um um so I had last month um I think for I was trying to count it was either the sixth or seventh year I'm
023hosting this biology career day. Each of the four biology classes and two AP biology classes had three people from the community who work either in the medical field, the academic um field at Western or the ecology field come and speak um for about 15 minutes each about their life experiences, what it looks like to have the job that they have, how they got there, advice they had uh for high school students. some of the highlights this year. Um 2020 graduate, I think Cole Johnston, he just graduated from Woodster and he came to the AP biology classes and talked about his research that he did um in his in genetics um and his path to going on to get his PhD and he had a bunch of advice for finding um how he found himself and
024his passion through college and that was really really cool for our students to hear about. Um, one of the other things that I really noticed this year from all of the presenters as we've been looking at the graduate profile, um, all year long and talking about the graduate profile, the number of presenters who spoke about the same skills that we've identified in the graduate profile, they use terms um, like face-to-face communication and the importance of building those communication skills being really critical and helping them be successful. ful in their careers. They also talked about the um importance of critical thinking and how that was one of the most important things that they learned about in school or those skills through school. Um they talked about how important it was for all of our students to
025take opportunities for work-based learning and internships, taking opportunities that they had um in in high school to take advanced courses. um all of those opportunities making a really big impact um in their lives because a number of people talked about that they had this idea of what they thought they wanted to do and then did this internship or workplace learning that was what they thought they wanted and then they got there and realized it wasn't what they wanted at all and how valuable that was um for them to have that experience before way too late. Um, and the the thing that I heard number one throughout the whole day from presenters was how important it was um to have curiosity and lead uh a life of curiosity. Delve into what people were curious about. And
026that was really great and inspiring um for me to hear because I think that's like the foundation of science. Um and and that was also one of the things that we identified in the graduate profile. Um, so it was just really reinforcing to me all the things that we identified as uh what we want our students to take away are truly the skills that are used in the workplace now. So that's I wanted to share. Thank you. 7.2 2526 student schedules. Uh so Mrs. Hacker. Uh our counselor has been um in the process of finalizing our 2526 schedule. Uh she's been working extremely hard modifying and putting the final touches on uh creating the schedule that works for students as well as staff. Uh our goal is to get to a place where at the
027end of this year before students check out uh in May that our 9th through 11th grade students will get their next year's schedule. um with what we have them in. Um and then also that we will get it to our incoming freshmen at their eighth grade promotion night. So I think their promotion night is um Tuesday after Labor Day if I'm not mistaken. And so uh they will do a little walkthrough of that graduation in that morning. So yes, Phil will know. Uh so they'll be in the gym that morning and so Mr. Mr. Henkins and Miss Hecker will go over and visit with them and inspire them and make them excited about being in high school. And then we will give them their schedule and um again hopefully just kind of leave them with
028just an impression of just being excited about returning in the fall in August. And so um and then of course the counselor is um here usually five days or I'm sorry 10 days prior to the start of the school year. So, we'll have some dates set aside where students can change their schedule if they need to because inevitably, you know, something will come up or they'll think, "Oh gosh, I really want to take this class. I, you know, like to get into that." And and of course, there are going to be a few holes here and there uh just because again, um Miss Hecker's working really hard to connect with all of those kids, but unfortunately sometimes that gets difficult in the spring because we've got kids going in so many different drug shoes. And
029so, um, but I think we're on pace to to have that happen. So, we're just excited about, uh, you know, making that transition, getting through the end of the year, but also getting kids excited about hopefully coming back. Um, let's see here. 7.3 graduation diplomas. Uh, so graduation, as Mr. Henkins will talk about in a little bit, um, is going to be Sunday, May 25th at 2 o'clock in the BW Lodge gym. Uh we mentioned it at the last board meeting um but um always at this meeting we kind of solidify those people that want to those uh board members that want to help out with the passing out of diplomas. So if you are interested make sure you speak up. I'll be able to be there this year so if you want to and
030I think Roxan it would be great if you were to sit with your family and then just come up. We'll just organize whatever's easier. Whatever you would rather Well, whatever's easiest for the process, too. I don't want to make a big deal. No, we can get it figured out ahead of any else. You able and Roxan, we don't have as many um graduation speeches, so we'll have room on the podium. last year we might not have had 7.4 coaching resignations. So included in your packet is a letter of resignation from Tiffany Bruce and my letter of acceptance from her role as head cheerleading coach. So this is obviously one of those that's that can be hard to fill. We've been fortunate for the last um couple of years in hospitality and we had um brilliant.
031So, we've got some big shoes to fill that ro I think has already gotten that position open. And if not, we'll be opening it very soon. So, if you know anybody that's interested in cheerleading, send them to Mr. Mil. Lexi Ls, who was our student body president. I had mentioned it to her. I said, "If there's ever an opportunity, she's staying in Dylan. Dylan, I'm working for Sperian." So, as soon as I see a post, I'll I'll mention to her. Awesome. I know he's got it all put together. I just don't know if it'll be in the next paper. Casey might know. Okay. She has no idea, but I know it will be open soon. So, yeah. Um, and then also included in your packet is a letter of resignation from Whitney Ferris and my
032letter of acceptance from her role as assistant girls basketball coach. So, um, we also will have a girl basketball coaching position open. I do know that Taylor Martell who is in our YBDR um program was a volunteer assistant and I believe she's very interested Josh that so I think she would be a good um transition into that and of course insider staff so right Good Britney. Yes, for sure. Yeah, he didn't want to pull you out. I had a teacher resignation. So, including in your packet is a copy of letter resignation from Mike telling from his science teaching position and my letter of acceptance. Um, so you'll see uh in my letter that um Mike has been a teacher here for the last 20 years and has decided to retire. And so he will be
033um uh his wife also retired from the elementary district as well. And so they have a place by Georgetown Lake that he is currently commuting from right now. I think they have a place in Dylan, but I think for the most part he's commuting they're commuting back and forth from there. So he will be returning. Uh and then 6 point or 7.6 counselor resignation. Um included in your packet is a copy of letter copy of a letter of resignation from JC Hacker from her counseling position and her letter of acceptance. Um oh she's been here for a year. She was just done a wonderful job. I'm sure you guys have all seen in the paper that her husband was recently selected as the chancellor. um unexpected things and so um she just feels like you
034know it's important for her to be there during that time and I think she's really enjoyed her time as counselor here and it was um a great experience for her as well great as well as a great experience for us and so she definitely will be missing that position. um we will open that position um and at least yeah hopefully get another good counseling candidate. Yes, both she and Mike. They've both done a wonderful job. Yeah, for sure. And then Brock is not here knowing the booster club meeting. The hope is is that he is going to get here because one of the things that he is going to talk about is uh and I think it's included in your packet is the BSN um contract for Nike and just kind of go through kind
035of what that means. um obviously he's the one that has spoken to um the representative there and has all the ins and outs about that and so that is an action item and so in order for us to take advantage of that we have to have it approved at this minute at this meeting so hopefully he will have the opportunity to to be here to share a little bit about that but I'll give him a little bit of time before that happens so and then I'm sure he'll talk about the fact that we are gearing up for postseason So this week uh we have tennis leaving tomorrow uh for a rainy start to uh the tennis divisional tournament. So they are scheduled to be uh Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The hope is is that they
036can get it done in two days but they always leave free because of rain delay. Uh the option is um Hamilton has two ports inside their little indoor facility that's there and we have done that. I was talking to Todd Nordall today and I think the one of the times that we did it, he was a senior and he started his first match at 11:00 p.m. Uh because of course it in order to get it in, they just have to play straight through. I think that year they played until 2 or 3 in the morning and so it's not ideal, but it's just spring in Montana and so uh they get started. Our track gets to Pson uh for divisionals for Friday and Saturday. Um, our softball has secured the second seed. So, they don't
037have anything uh this week. So, they automat have an automatic bid to the state tournament. And then I know it's super exciting. And then our baseball does have a playin game. Sounds like um tenatively that's scheduled for this Saturday. We think it's going to be building central, but there's a little bit of um uncertainty there just depending on the games that are going to be played. It might be say 3:00 2 o'clock. Is it here? It's here. So, we ended up there speaking. Yes. Fourth for the play. Of course, it did have to be building. I know. Anyways, if Brock gets here, he probably have a little We all are also doing our um fire truck ride for our state music. Kids that got a one. I think that's is that tomorrow or Wednesday? I
038think it's Wednesday lunchtime. And so those kids will get to ride fire truck as they had their state convention last weekend. She shared those results dats of Megan. If not, we'll go on to the assistant principal's report at your office. There you go. So attendance wise once again pretty consistent list at 91% goes back up and it does take a big hit because it seems like there's a lot of students that are active in the spring when it comes to tennis and track drag, baseball, softball. A lot of those competitions are during the school week. Then you get people doing, hey, spring will be time to go on their little vacation. And so I get a lot of Yes. And so we actually did in our last staff meeting is kind of talked a little
039bit about something that hope that these kids that are contributing and participating in sports are excused officially from school. Yes. So are there numbers graduated? Those numbers are included in here too. So that's an official excuse by the school to not be here. So I'm wondering if that does that make sense to Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Way to explain it to me is just that they're out of the building. Is that what you said? Yeah. I'm just wondering if that categorization makes sense versus or should that be captured differently when it's an official approved by the school. So I think the same thing when we let the FFA kids go. I mean there's there's reasons there's you know there's a lot of benefit they get from that which to me seems different than I just didn't
040get up or I didn't show up or I chose to do something different or That'll be good to ask and then that might be a good our school question because it's like a factory report but interest it would be interesting to see be really curious about that because we have a lot we want to encourage our kids to participate and if it's a count against them attendance this perspective to not be here. I'd hate for kids and parents and families to say, "Well, we're not going to participate because I would say it's not account against them, but it's a count against um obviously the school and when it comes to state reporting, you know, these revenue reported." So, that's how the state requires the numbers to be reported. Don't quote me on that. I'm just
041saying that I think that that's what we submit to be done. We'll just I think we should talk to Audrey. I don't think physical absences are included in I don't think they are either. And the only reason I know this is I got a letter on my son because he was gone for the hit for two days and he was on vacation for three days. So that was his parents fault. He was gone for five days. This that those were the days they listed hit and that even though it's still a sporting activity, he is not excused or not I don't know. Yeah. And then the vacation. So he got the fiveday letter for. So there was nothing else included in that from the activities other than those. So we didn't get penalized for them.
042I guess put it that way. I will it just seems like it' be a lot higher because All right. um behavior. Nothing's really creeping up the the dent in parties. Sometimes they try, but to always like it's like seems like every other month they like and then it's spring. So 84 was kind of language things and then there was some email type things actually kids address that and then then the next one we're looking at is a day per in which most import. And then I just I saw this other report which says average number of behaviors of incidents per day per month. And you know if you look at it on September there's only for each day there's incences there's only one one over one and that was an eight incident. Last page leads
043into my next topic is graduation. And so I will be setting this. I actually I I met with all the seniors about three weeks ago and just to give them this information, let them know that we were getting very close to um the end. Work hard, push push through. Um, and right now I think there's more concern for one student possibly and not possibly graduating. We've been in contact with that student's parents quite often. Um, we've actually made some arrangements to try to help this student be successful, was successful for a while and now is maybe back down. But um lots of different activities that we do, especially that last week when we do our awards night on Monday the 19th. Then we have our senior walk. We have the graduates dress up in their
044gowns and their caps and then they they walk through the other buildings, not just high school buildings, but the elementary as well. So that they can see what what a graduate looks like and why they are at school and why the hard work and what it looks like when it pays off. And so it is pretty neat, you know. I mean, see the lot of little kids give lots of high fives and hugs and so it's been pretty fun. And then that Wednesday, we will take the kids down to Idaho Falls. There's some activities. Then we come home, we have rehearsal. Um, and then and then they get a checkout for those students, those seniors that are here. to check out. Um, but if they're in an activity, they usually wait until the next eight
045weeks after graduation be a lot will have their uniforms and and things that they need to turn in, make sure that we get before we allow them to check fully out. And so just so everybody does know that if if you haven't checked out yet, you will get a handshake and an envelope and a cover for your diploma, but you won't get your actual diploma until you get out. Then graduating or balorates on Saturday, graduation on Sunday. Um, and it is we're having our weekly activity meeting and I kind of look at each [Music] other and we both start hyperventilating. Oh my gosh. So, are there any questions on that? Thank you. the awards thing on Monday night. Do you know what time that is? 6. 6:30. Okay. I think that's a good question. Did
046get that? Yeah, it's on my refrigerator. It's on my refrigerator. I think that's one out of seven, but I could tell that there was no time and I meant to call him. Perfect. That's okay. Super picture is literally epic. Thank you, Mr. We'll go on to the consent agend. Yeah, that's fine. Is that okay? You can just All right. 9.1 board consideration to not open and fire the the science position. So obviously we accepted Mike Telling or I accepted Mike Telling's resignation for his retirement at the end of the year but in an effort to save money I am proposing to the board that we do not open and hire the open science position that was vacated by Mr. telling instead of hiring this position, I'm proposing that we move Paige Pathousen into the science
047position. Um, and then increase Josh Keller's FTE to one by moving him to PE. Uh, and increase Bobby Conan's FTE to one by increasing the number of business classes that she has um that she's teaching because right now both Josh and Bobby are teaching business classes and Josh is also teaching um some PE classes as well. Uh this does mean that there will not be a female PE teacher and that will be the first time since I've been here that we would not have a female PE teacher, but it's definitely not unique to the state. Um it's not across the board where you see in most districts that they do have that. Um, and so I would recommend that uh if you do approve this recommendation that we look at or work to try to
048create a plan to provide a female super supervision in the women's locker room or establish criteria and set um uh our PE teachers up for as much success as possible and our students with as much success as possible in the locker room in that situation. Um like I said by doing this it is a money saving and it saves us just over a half of an FTE. So um just in light of uh some of the budget um challenges that we are facing um and you know obviously the not passing of the technology levy and those different types of things that we do do this plus it provides an opportunity for Josh and Bobby to move into um they have been part-time certified to full-time certified and with Paige I mean she was the science
049teacher in Twin Bridges for what Josh three years I think. So yes, you know and she did a very fine job and she's done a great job in the PE department and science is her first love anyway. So it is a natural kind of a natural transition I think and she's very excited about she came to me and she's really ready for a new challenge and new opportunity and and um like I said her first love was in science and that's what she graduated. I know my husband is a professor of college and always speaks very highly of of her students and Paige is definitely one of them um that he spoke very of and so um if this is approved she would take on intro to chemistry and physics classes. there is an advanced
050chemistry class that is a dual enrollment class that we do need to take a look at her transcript to see if she has the right credits to be able to teach that dual enrollment. Um, but there is a possibility of shifting different classes that we could figure out a way to do that if she didn't with either um Elsie or Jeff who is our other science teacher. And so um you know at the very least that would be one of the biggest challenges in this regard. I do know that she would be very committed to getting whatever requirements that she needed to be able to do that in the future or just to open up those opportunities. Another area that she has spoken um to wanting to have some interest in is offering um you
051guys remember but number of years ago we had a health careers class. Um, I know Barrett Hospital is looking at different partnerships and wanting to partnership with the high school to try to provide our students with exposure to, you know, a wide variety of different health careers. And so, um, that is something that she did teach in Twin Bridges and would feel very passionate about as well. And so, I just think that a lot of, um, there's a lot of potential opportunity there. She's a great teacher, does a great job and Also nice for Bobby and Josh to be able to become full-time and they've done a good job for us and it's nice that they can continue in a full-time capacity. I would make the motion to approve your recommendation to um unless there's
052more more conversation. uh to approve your recommendation to move Paige into the science position and move Josh and Bobby to both one FTE. You moved and seconded to move Paige Papousen into full-time science and increase Josh Keller with full-time E and Bobby Conan to full-time business. Is there any question or discussion? All those in favor say I. Those opposed? Josh, any comments for you or Bobby? Just thank you very much. Really appreciate the opportunity. So, thank you for all the hard work figuring out how to make this happen. Thank you. Thanks to board consideration to hire Brett Nordall as our open math in the open math position. So we have concluded the interviews for our open math position. Uh the hiring committee would like to recommend Brett Nordall and I would concur with this recommendation.
053And so just for a little bit of background on Brett, he has taught in Bridges uh for a good number of years. He's taught calculus at one point. He's not currently teaching that, but he has taught it. He's taught pre-calculus. He's taught algebra, too. And obviously this math position is open due to Rick Nordall retiring who is a very veteran teacher of 35 years in our system who has taught all of our upper level math classes. Brett did a nice job and would be excited to to have him at the CHS and he's shown a lot of interest in helping and extracurricular activities and those different types of things as well. Well, he teaches upper division then. Is that what you're saying? That's the plan. Nice. and he does have a masters and has the
054ability to teach uh the possibility of maybe getting some dual credit classes which we have not been able to do with math as well as the possibility of some AP classes as well and we just went to where we're hiring three yes teachers we increased breath or Todd's FTE last week. Okay. So, and Todd is also getting his masters in math as well. So, between the two of them, they would have the ability to teach a wide variety of different math teacher. Sorry. Moved and seconded to hire Brett Noll as math teacher. Is there any discussion or questions? Those in favor say I. I. Nay. Those opposed passes unanimously. 9.3 fire Suzanne Bollick as district clerk for the 2526 school year. Uh so I have completed the required evaluation of district Suzanne Bollick and recommending
055to rehire her for the 2526 school year. She does a great job. I would make that motion. standards mean second three times to Suzanne district upcoming school year. Any questions? Suzanne, I just would like to thank you for the hard work you do and the hours you put in and the great job you do. So, absolutely. All those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed. This is unanimous. 9.4. um hire the slate of certified instructors uh that are as presented. So included in your packet a list is a list of certified tenur staff that I am recommending for rehire for the 2526 school year. Um, and again that was in your packet and it just lists all of our staff members that are I move to the list of tenure staff in our pack
056and seconded to hire the slate of certified tenure instructors as presented. Is there any discussion? All those in favor say I. So 9.5 non tenur staff member Paige Paphousen which will be assigned this year. So I have completed the required evaluation of non-tenured certified staff member Paige Paphousen and I am recommending that you hire her for the 2526 school year. This will be Paige's fourth contract and upon approval uh if approved we'll make her tenure even though she was in PE and would shift to science um that tenure still would would be I think that's excellent. I would make that motion to approve her second and move and seconded to higher pageous in her fourth contract. Any questions? Those in favor say I. Nay. Those opposed. Passes unanimously. And then six non hire non-tenured staff
057member Josh Keller. Um which in this case would be in PE. So I have completed the required evaluation of non-tenured certified staff member Josh Keller. And I am recommending you rehire him at the 2526 school year. This will also be Josh's fourth contract. and upon approval will make him even though he was part-time still um would move him into that tenure. I'll make that motion to hire gosh or approve tenure. Yeah, I would second that. Move and second to hire Josh Keller for his fourth contract which is his 10-year contract. Is there any discussion or questions? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed passes unanimously. 9.7 hire non-tenured staff member Bobby Ponen in business. So again, I have completed the required evaluation of non-tenured certified staff member Bobby Ponen. And I am recommending you
058that you hire her for the 2526 school year. This would be her um third year. So it's not she still had here. No. I'd make that motion to rehire second and move and seconded to hire Bobby Conan for her third year as a full-time business teacher. Is there any question or discussion? She's doing great job. Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed passes unanimously. Hire non- tenur staff member Todd Nordle in math. Uh so I have completed the required evaluation of non-tenure certified staff um Todd Nordall and I am recommending you rehire him for the 25.6 school year. This would be his second. I so move to rehire Don Nort. Second. Been moved and seconded to hire Todd Nordal for his second year as a math teacher. Any questions or discussion? Those in favor
059say I. I. Those opposed. Unanimously. Just out of curiosity. I had this but I don't he's the youngest one. Okay. So he would have graduated in 2007. Brett and then Zane and then Kelsey I guess I didn't Yeah. dad. So, even though he's the baby, he gets seated. [Music] Excellent. He does. He was on speed dial with my son. Non-tured staff, Gary Tilton for special education. So, I have completed the required evaluation of non-tenure certified teacher Gary Tilton and I'm recommending you hire him during the 2526 school year. You'll recall we've hired him from Twin Bridges as well. Um, and so he's um I know helping Michael a lot in the special education and that's been really great to have another person to help out Bridges people. Did I have anybody laugh? [Music] I would
060make that motion to approve. Um Gary Tilton seconded to hire Gary Tilton as special ed for his second year. Is there any comment or discussion? Those in favor say I. Those opposed unanimously 9.9A non hire non-tenured staff that's Mason Spanish and again this will be her second year as well. So, I've completed the required evaluation of non-tenure certified teacher Jessica Mason, and I'm recommending that you rehire her for the 256 school year. It's been nice to have done as well. I mean, there's a big difference. I hate to say it. Heather did really great on the online stuff, but what he didn't learn compared to what he's learning this year. Yeah, that's one of the things that she's talked a lot about. you know, obviously what she's teaching in Spanish 2 right now will probably
061be what, you know, as she starts to catch up with some of these kids, which will actually be Spanish one. And so, um, yeah, it's just been nice having it on. I know the students have really appreciated not having it online. Some kids can be successful. Yeah, Kai did fine online. He thought he really liked it online, but he obviously is learning a lot more. I move to rehire Jessica Mason. Second move and seconded to hire Jessica Mason, Spanish teacher for her second year. Is there any discussion? Those in favor say I. Those opposed unanimously. 9.9b hire non-tenured staff. Um Rob Henkins, assistant principal. This will be his third year. So, I completed the required evaluation of non-tenured assistant principal Rob Henkins and I'm recommending you rehire him for the 2526 school year. Obviously, we'll
062have um working with Josh and the new leadership. So, yeah, I make a motion. Second move and seconded to hire Bob Henkins as assistant principal for his third contract. Is there any discussion or question? Those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Um hire slate of bus drivers as presented. So included in your packet is a list of route drivers that Mr. Lener is recommending be retired for the 2526 school year. Um I concur with this recommendation. You will notice that there is one open route that he is working on trying to get built. Uh but rest of those I would recommend you rehire quickly. I'll make rehire the recommended bus driver. Second move and seconded to approve the slate of bus drivers as presented. Is there any question? Those
063in favor say I. Those opposed passes unanimously. on 9.9D higher site of classified employees as presented. So including packet is the list of classified employees that I am recommending be rehired for the 2526 school year. Um and again these are all of our para educators um our facility uh director our custodians title people although we don't have uh any title people on here because of course Bobby's moving to full-time and Betty retired after 40 years. I would recommend that you approve this. Let's make a portion fee. You hire the classified employee second. Been moved and seconded to hire the later classified employees as presented. Questions or discussion? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Also passes unanimously. Uh 9.9E, hired slate of summer maintenance workers. So included in your packet is a list of
064summer maintenance workers that Mr. Ferguson is recommending be hired to help prepare the school for the 2527 school year. And I have her with these recommendations. So these are the student helpers that we put out an ad for that they have responded. Um yeah, I didn't go very far. and he did really good at although and then of course Dave Stson um will help out and English will also help out. Joel Smith who we did hire upstairs is probably going to move on at the end of this year which is unfortunate because he's done a good job. I did approve him because they haven't turned anything in. So, I'm hoping he'll come back, but I did hear through the grape vine that he's soon. But, of course, they do have a lot of work to
065try to get the school in for second summer maintenance work. There any discussion or question? interested in that. I did that many many years ago. Yeah, you guys did. [Music] All those in favor say I. Those opposed passes unanimously. Okay. Under the action items, the 10.1 board consideration to approve the memorandum of understanding with the BFT union to ensure that we are in compliance with the stars act. I have reported on multiple occasions that we are in compliance um and have everything that we need in order to meet the what is required to get the start act. There are just a few things that Montana School Boards Association um and um OPI is recommending that we have in place just to make sure that we have an agreement between the union um the superintendent and
066the board um to just ensure that we are always making sure that we're working towards achieving the legislative goal which is to increase teacherbased pay uh that's set forth in House Bill 252. And so basically this is just a memorandum of understanding um that kind of outlines it doesn't put any real specifics. It doesn't tie us or the union to anything specific. It just basically says we're going to work together to make sure that we do everything that we can to be to remain in compliance. And as I've said, all of the initial reports and the spreadsheets that they have provided us looks to be that we will qualify for the next five years uh without um very with very little um effort to be able to do that we need to so but um
067again this is just one of those things that they're recommending. So I would recommend that you approve approve that memorandum of of understanding with the BFT. I would make that motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with the BFD. Second move and seconded to approve the memorandum of memorandum with BFD. Is there any question or discussion? All those in favor say I. Passes unanimously. 10.2 to board consideration to approve the updates to the job description for the district clerk to ensure we are in compliance with the stars act. Also included in your packet is a copy of the changes um that are required to make sure that we have in the district clerk's job description. They're all in there in certain level of or certain form, but these just are clearly stated the exact way
068that they're stated in House Bill 252. And so, um, uh, when we have the district clerk and we have all of these things in, um, her job description, it does allow us to get an additional FTE into the quality educator payment calculation, which will increase the total amount that we'll receive in that SARS act by about $8,000. So, I just highlighted all of those things. Like I said, if you read through them, they're all things that are a part of her job description. It just might not have been stated exactly that same way. So, we'll just make sure that we do it this way. I think Suzanne looked at it and have any objections. Is that right? Yeah. As long as I Yeah. So, I would recommend you approve second move and seconded to approve
069the updated job description for the district clerk. Is there any question or discussion? Those in favor say I. opposed. Josh, are you still with us? I am. I am. Do you have any questions or input anywhere along the Not so far? Just following along. Okay. I I'm surprised that you're moving in a pretty quick pace for a a two-page agenda like that. All right. 10.3 board consideration to approve evaluation language to the CPA. Um, which does have support. So, also included in your packet is a copy of the language that needs to be added to the collective bargaining agreement. Uh, in normal years, we would do all of this during negotiations, but we haven't done that yet, and we just need to make sure and get some of these things kind of taken care of.
070Uh so board policy 5222 which is the evaluation of certified staff does reference that the CVA details these terms of conducting evaluations of tenure certified staff members but the language is not included and so nothing will change on how the certified staff are evaluated. It's exactly how we present it every year with with what we are doing. It just is not listed in the CDA and obviously it's just an oversight. So, um, I learned about it because in our accreditation process that was, you know, I put the CDA in there thinking that it was just there and, um, that was one of the things that they noted. And so, instead of getting a four, we got a three in that area. And so, by doing this, I can resubmit that and hopefully get that point.
071Plus, it, you know, does the right thing by putting it in there. And so, um, like I said, I submitted it to John, our BFT. uh president, he pushed it out to the union and he didn't get any push back for any of what that looks like. And again, it's all the same of what we've done, which is for certified staff. Um it's at least once every three years, but that doesn't mean that it is only once every three years. It could be more. It just has to recommend that you approve that language. And I did include board policy 525222 in there um so that you can see what it says to reference to it in Mississippi. And then like I said, I submitted it not really thinking about it and it really isn't in
072there. I'm like, it is in there. I know it's an move and seconded to approve the evaluation language for the CBA. Is there any discussion? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed passes unanimously. 10.4 to our board consideration to approve the 2526 Montana High School Association DU. So, included in your packet is a copy of the MHSA 2526 dues. And um it is my recommendation uh that the proposed dues be approved by the board. In the packet, the first sheet that's in there is just kind of highlights all of the different things. on that second page where it just talks about pay school association the annual dual dues you can see all of the different things that brock check that we have and those dues are $4750 uh due to Montana schoolboards association by
073July 15th anything you want to add and I would recommend that you approve those I would move to approve approve the Montana High School Association dues for 2526 the amount of $4,750. Seconded to approve the dues to the Montana High School Association for $4,750. Is there any question or discussion? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed should be consideration to approve the 2526 MHSA liability catastrophic plan. Um so uh included in your packet you will see um at the top there it says liability catastrophance form uh to the attune of $625. Uh and that's because we have an enrollment of 200 I'm sorry 301 to 400 students. And then the second page behind that just kind of outlines the summary of the benefits. Those subs. So I would recommend that you approve those. I
074so move to approve the MHSA liability staff. seconded to approve the 110 association liability catastrophic plan. Any questions? Let's see how he said that in favor say I 10.6 board consideration to approve the 2526 Montana High School Association concussion insurance. Also included in your packet is a copy of the MHSA concussion insurance proposal. Again, it is my recommendation that you approve this again for 301 to 400 students. It's $171 that and it does provide a benefit to students and their families um if they have suffered a concussion due to one of our our different activities. And Brock, we've had a couple of students take advantage of it. Is that right? um over the years they've been interested in. I don't know where it's ever came. Once I kind of pass the information along, it's I
075guess submit it. But yeah, I've given out make that motion. Seconded to approve of Montana Association concussion insurance. Is there any discussion? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed the same. Passes unanimously. 10.7 board consideration to approve out of state travel for FFA. Um so um just asking for board consideration to allow FFA to travel out of state. Uh they have a vet science judging clinic in June. And Mr. Ego would also like uh to approve their out of state travel for the 2526 National FFA conference that's going to be held in October of 2025 in Indianapolis. Normally he would do that next year. Um but he has a fairly large group of students that will be going this year because of how much success that they had at the uh state FFA convention.
076And so he just wanted to be able to start looking at flights and hotels and some of those different types of things. So, he just thought the earlier that he could get that approved, the better he could start planning for that and try to take advantage of of those um hopefully lower rates for those travel opportunities. I will say the June thing is kind of tentative. His wife is expecting and is due in June and so uh he is looking to see if he can get somebody to take those students there. But of course, it would be beneficial for them to go because it's practice for the vet science judging that they will do at the national FFA convention. And so he's hopeful that he can get that um figured out. And so I would
077ask you to approve those. And I think we probably should approve them in separate motions. one for June and then I'd make the motion to approve the FFA travel upstate for the Vet Science judging clinic in June. Second. And moved and seconded to approve the Vet Science out ofate travel for FFA in June. There any discussion? Those in favor say I. I. None. to approve move to approve the out of state travel for 256 FFA conference. Second and moved and seconded to approve out of state travel for FFA to the national convention in the Indianapolis in October 25. Any discussion or questions? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed passes unanimously. 10.8 board consideration depends a resolution in accordance with MCA20-20-417 for the county election administrator to conduct school elections during the ensuing school
078year of 26. So included in your packet is a resolution requesting that Beaverhead County conduct school elections for Beaver County High School for 206. Um this is just something that we have to do. It doesn't set us in stone to running any type of an election, but it gives us the ability to be able to do that if we so choose to do that. So whether it's um school board elections or potential levies or those different types of things um I would recommend that you conduct the school elections for fiscal year 2026. Second. Good evening. Seconded to approve the school elections during the spring. I guess the resolution. There was a resolution for the school year 2026 according to MCA 20-20-417. Is there any discussion? Those in favor say I. This is unanimous. 10 10.9
079board canvas of elections to improve and certify the results. So included in the packet is a copy of the revised May 6 school election results that are signed by the counting judges and the election administrator. And again, that's just a copy. Suzanne has a sealed official copy of the final election results that will need to be open so that the results can be reviewed, certified, and ultimately published by the board. There will need to be a motion to approve it. certified officials canvas. Again, we probably had we had new board members, we would have done this at the beginning of the um you can kind of look at that and as Suzanne is opening that um you do have I think a very similar document in your packet and it just says the 25 school
080district election and so Suzanne go you want to go over that or you want it. Okay. Okay. So it be better than um one thing that when we went over it with it election administrator um with the turnout I thought it was very low as well and she ran a little thing for assault say it was decent. Um we had 44% here in 25. It was 42% last year in 24 was 38.8% in 23. In 22 it was 46%. Uh that was with school district 10 had an election in the Fox Run special district which you said kind of depends on what uh elections going on and then 44% back in 21. So kind of typical. Yes. appointment. Um, so pay me is that basically what was I wasn't exactly sure what was the total
081number of ballots issued total number of ballots [Music] accepted hard to read. Looks like the total issued were 5,870. The total accepted were 2469 which would be the 44%. Then it talks about the um the technology levies. The high school one against was 207 for was 101. The elementary technology levy was against 1123 or 932. I think this is um for the ballot. So, of course, we had to have our Beaverhead County Faceful and then we also had to be on District 10's ballot and we also had to be on Reichley's ballot because there were three. So, this is our total and these are all of the different districts. So, Beaverhead County would be everybody but um Dylan Elementary and Reichley because they ran their own. So, it' be all of our rural districts except
082for Dylist 10 and Reichley. Does that make sense? And then of course still in elementary one is below that makes sense. Yes. And I'm still unsure as to whether the other six rural districts besides rightly voted for our high school levy. Did you vote for it? Yeah. Okay. So you guys Yeah. The only thing on my ballot was Yeah. That was the same for us. Okay. And I think that's the whole that first column that's Yeah. And then it has the totals for the district 10 trustees. Marty Lashner had 1414 votes and Sarah Hartman had 1351. And then for the one-year for district 10, Bill Thompson had 1194, Evelyn Law had 585. And then it reiterates again the total um district 10 levy was against 1136 and 4919 and rightly was against 41 and 427
083and I don't understand why those totals are different than they are up above but for the total balance accepted No, for the technology lab up above that was the highest it shows in was 48 before it was 20 and then down below it shows the 41 and just said they voted for the high school levy and then that's rightly Yeah, absolutely. Which is easy to do. They did tell me there was a discrepancy like if we look at the very top number of ballots accepted um that 309 and if you notice on our middle levy for against the 101 and 207 that only adds up to 308. So there's a one vote not accounted for. Um Stacy Reynolds had talked about there was a handful of votes turned in where the signatures didn't match or
084where people didn't vote on certain ones or voted um I wouldn't assume on something like that but like ones where you voted too many people. So they didn't she didn't specifically go through these with us on why on this particular one why I was why we're one short we're like the next chunk for us we are 36 short um from that 2091 um 20 255 if you add that 932 and 1123 and then the next chunk if you add 29 plus 48 get 68. So, we're one short of our 69. So, like I said, Stacy didn't specifically say why we're short on all those, but overall she did say um the numbers are short because of those reasons. And I think on that first sheet, it does say how many were rejected and how many,
085you know, those different numbers are all included on that. Yeah. And did she say she had she contacted all those people and they had a certain amount of time to come in and fix their ballot and then if they didn't then it just and actually had any of them come in we couldn't have done this today. We couldn't have canvased votes today because you have to wait able to open them today. Think that's yes I was confused by understanding would recommend that there be a motion to approve certify the election officials can unfortunately you said make you Oh, we haven't. I guess I'll make that motion to approve and certify the election officials been moved and seconded to approve and certify the results of the election. Is there any question discussion? Those in favor say
086I. Those opposed unanimously 10.98 board consideration to approve the second semester tier six bus bus route transportation form. So included in your packet uh is a copy of the second semester TR6 bus route transportation reimbursement claim. Uh and it would be my recommendation that you approve this claim. Um as you guys are going through that this does get us through the semester. There are 91 days in this second semester. Uh you'll notice that on two and nine there's an A and that just means that we switched buses from the first semester. So it's a different bus the second semester than first semester. And then the reason why there are two eights and two 13s. And you'll notice off to the right where it says days claimed um where um those that have multiple don't equal
087the 91. And it's because um Roy left his route uh to cover Sai Westfall's route which is eight and um Mark Bokea then substituted for Roy 13 to cover Royy's original route. So um and I would recommend that you approve this bus route reimbursement plan if you have any questions. So moved approve the bus route reimbursement for move and seconded to approve the TR6 bus route transportation forms. Is there any questions? Those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? [Music] Unanimously. Right. 10.9 C or I'm sorry 10.9B. Consideration to approve the contract of BSM sports reward program. So included in your packet is a copy of the BSM sports reward program. Mr. Melanappy is here and he does remember we signed a contract in 2022 with ESM. Basically, we would use them as our
088uh equipment and then uniform all our guess athletics would use them to buy our buy our stuff. um that gave us some rebate money back um on different levels on how much you spent uh we would receive money back. They've approached us with uh a new contract and moving us to become a a Nikeon school to where we would be um wearing Nike uniforms. Uh currently we have all but two programs in Nike uniforms. Uh, and I assume was softball that they were going to move to anyway when their uniform rotation was up. Uh, we do in our old contract, you know, each year we'd buy uniforms. You say last year, I think we bought girls basketball uniforms. We would get what was called Nike credit money. Um, so it' be like $1,000 for the
089girls basketball uniforms that we could spend on Nike products how we, you know, saw fit. uh with this Nike contract, we would get that uh 5,000 upfront every year for five years. So, um and we could use that Helen on whatever you want. Yeah. Yep. It has to be Nike specific gear, but we can, you know, use it how we wanted. And then on top of that, we would also receive um 10% back on any monies we would spend over 20,000, which the old contract was. Have it right here. 25 to 50,000, we would get 6% back. So that that's increased 4% as well with the up front of 5,000 a year to uh get our teams in or keep our teams in Nike. Um the teams that aren't there currently when they're up on
090uniform rotation that's when they would have to switch. So we don't have to get them there right now. So does that exclude the cheerleaders? Yes. Yeah. Just the the cheerleans the varsity spirit which we've used forever. Yeah. Just when we when we purchase through there it doesn't count towards our our spending levels for whatever reason. I don't know why. It's never counted. So um you don't get the we don't get the discount. You can see we get the discounts on the Nike apparel and stock uniforms at 40%. Uh we don't buy footwear, but if we did it would be 30. BSN products were getting a 15% discount and any like branded BSN products at 10% which we have this one as well. It's no online store. Yeah. And we offer these online stores, but each
091team will open up these stores for parents or get stuff by year through. Yeah. And that that money will also go There's a a fan store online on VSN that's open all the time. So, I don't know. Does anybody have any questions? Sounds like a better deal. It does sound like a better deal. If we had if we had teams all over the board with different jerseys and stuff like that, I would think differently about it, but you know, we have new coaches who have now ordered uniform, but they they like Nike or Jordan, whatever. Very comfortable with moving forward with it. Um, it's a little more for about five years. We can get out of it if we've, you know, something crazy where Nike uniforms just price themselves completely out and we have to
092get out of it. We can get out of it. Is there a penalty to go pretty bad or no? Yeah, it just depends on what uniform you buy. Basketball jersey, volleyballs are fairly cheap. You know, you get the baseballs, footballs, they're more expensive because of this little stiff area. Well, I would make the motion then to approve the BSN. Sorry. Seconded to approve the new BSN sports reward program contract. There any discussion? Those in favor say I. I. I just had one other thing that I say, but um we did receive dissolution from Sheridan on the co-op. They're going to get out of co-ops just name it since we haven't had a participant for them in three years, but they decided that they don't want to participate anymore. Does Twin Bridges or Lment decide anything?
093They haven't decided anything. Um, put it on like we'd like to know. So, and the one thing that Clark did learn this year was that we no longer have to renew them every three years. Yeah. They're in place. They're in place until there's a solution. They're the ones that decide to disillusion the sales or maybe disillusion somebody too. But yeah, we could. Yeah. It just has like so their board chair signs it and their superintendent and softball qualified for state and boys are in a playin game. Yeah, softball's a two seed at the state tournament for Southwest. Um boys we're hoping to play Saturday at two. That's not finalized yet, but looks like we'll be playing post central potentially what the guess was. So they win and then we got tennis headed over tomorrow for
094division. Anybody else have any questions for Okay. 10.9 C um consideration of possible action on candidate this white for a district of reposition of the district a possible executive session as determined by board chair pursuant to section 2-3-2033 MCA so the administration I have received additional information relevant to a candidate who has applied uh to be a substitute in an activity of driver Chris White and okay um due to the nature of the information and to protect the individual's right to privacy as board chairman. I've determined that the individual's right of privacy exceeds the merits of public disclosure and therefore the board will be convening in an executive session to discuss the matter pursuant to MCA2-3-2033. So, with that being said, um I guess we see John and Brock and Josh need to leave until
095we get this meeting